Can you lose data by unplugging the USB drive directly?

To exit the USB flash drive, click on the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon at the bottom right, and a dialog will pop up, "the universal volume device cannot be stopped now, please stop the device later." Some friends are afraid to directly unplug the USB flash drive, the data will be lost. In fact, this time did not open the files on the USB flash drive is normal, but why this problem, the direct extraction of the data will not be lost on the USB flash drive, the following to explain how to solve this situation and to avoid the loss of data directly from the USB drive.

First Open "My Computer", select your USB drive letter. Right-click to select "Properties" and the "removable disk (H:) property" (where the drive letter is arranged according to the partition of the operating system's hard disk and the partition of the optical drive) is clicked and the Hardware tab appears.

In the "All disk drive" Select the use of the USB drive (do not choose the wrong, there will be hard disk, CD-ROM, virtual CD-ROM and other devices, the general U disk will have "Flash disk USB" These letters), select, click "Properties", this will open the USB flash drive Name Properties window, select the "Policy" tab.

At this point you can choose according to their own needs: if you choose "for fast deletion and optimization," then, the speed of reading and writing using a USB stick will drop, but when the user directly unplug the USB flash drive, the data will not be lost or damaged, if you choose "to improve performance and optimize", then can optimize the read and write performance However, if you unplug the USB drive directly, the data on the USB flash drive may be damaged or lost. When you are finished selecting, click OK.

In general, the cause of this problem is that there are files in the USB flash drive is being used, you can check your computer on which processes may be used in this file, close off. For example, the folder is open, or there are anti-virus software and other similar monitoring process will default to scan some files, or the system is on the USB flash drive files in the file indexing, such a relatively recessive file usage will cause this situation. The author recommends selecting the "Optimize for quick Delete" option and the USB flash drive will not lose data in the case of direct pull-out.